If that's true Gmail was in developement for a looong time, since AdSense was working for at least 2-3 years before Gmail's public appearance. It's surprising that AdSense was born from context-sensitive ads in the mail instead of context-sensitive ads in websites (or in content that Google already had available, like answers or groups).

> If that's true Gmail was in developement for a looong> time, since AdSense was working for at least 2-3 years before> Gmail's public appearance.

I've heard somewhere that Gmail was tested by Google internally for about one year. But maybe it was more. Also, interestingly enough, in the interview Marissa mentioned that Gmail was a much harder project than AdSense, which was easier to ship, so perhaps AdSense development was quite fast. So something like this could be a potential time frame:

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